Villa Fiorentino Sorrento sede della Fondazione Sorrento

Corals and cameos

The origin of the coral has for centuries been shrouded in legend: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Pliny the Elder in his "Naturalis Historia" recognize the coral the same mythical genesis, the blood continued to drip from the severed head of the gorgon Medusa, is transformed coral.